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Usage: pdf2svg [<options>] file...
OPTIONS:
--file... arg A list of folders and/or file names to
process.
-o [ --output ] arg The output folder used to store modified
files. By default, the current working
folder will be used to store converted
files.
--subfolders Process all subfolders.
--prefix arg The prefix for the output image file.
The output filename will be constructed
by concatenating the prefix string, the
page number,and the appropriate
extension (e.g. myfile_01.svg,
myfile_02.svg, etc).The prefix option
should be used only for conversion of
individual documents. By default, each
input filename will be used as a prefix.
--digits arg The number of digits used in the page
counter portion of the output filename.
--omit_dtd Removes the DTD declaration at the top
of SVG file.
-a [ --pages ] arg (=-) Specifies the list of pages to convert.
By default, all pages are converted.
--svgz Compress output SVG files using SVGZ. By
default, generated SVG output is not
compressed.
-i [ --embedimages ] Embeds all images. By default, all
images are saved as external files.
-f [ --embedfonts ] Write the fonts needed by an SVG file
directly into the SVG file itself. By
default, fonts are written into separate
files that are shared by the SVG page
files.
--nofonts Disables conversion of font data to SVG.
By default, all available fonts are
converted to SVG.
--nounicode Disables mapping of text to public
Unicode region. Instead text will be
converted using a custom encoding. By
default, all text is mapped to Unicode.
--noglyphhex Removes hex escape strings for the
unicode attribute of glyph. This is
useful when using the --nounicode option
and the resulting SVG will be displayed
in a web browser as it prevents
mismapping of charcodes to glyphs. This
option is only applied when fonts are
embeded.
--preserve_fontnames Use the font/font-family naming scheme
as obtained from the source file.
--svgfonts Use SVG fonts instead of Opentype fonts.
--flatten arg (=fast) Used to reduce some PDF content to a
simple background image. While
flattening tries to preserve vector
text, some text might be flattened,
especially in simple mode.
off, disable flattening.
fast, will convert content deemed
complex to a background image, while
trying to preserve vector text, and
keeping file size down.
simple, reduces the PDF to two layers;
a RGB background image layer and an
overlapping vector text layer.
By default, fast is used for conversion.
--flatten_threshold arg (=default) For conversions that use --flatten
[simple|fast]. Used to control how
precise or relaxed text flattening is.
Some text can be preserved (not
flattened to image) at the expense that
the output might not be exactly the same
as the input.
very_strict, render (flatten) any text
that is clipped or occluded.
strict, render text that are
marginally clipped or occluded.
default, render text that are somewhat
clipped or occluded.
keep_most, only render text that are
seriously clipped or occluded.
keep_all, only render text that are
completely occluded, or used as a
clipping path.
-d [ --flatten_dpi ] arg (=140) For conversions to .xps, .xod, .html or
.epub only. The output resolution, from
1 to 1000, in Dots Per Inch (DPI) at
which to render elements which cannot be
directly converted. The higher the DPI,
the larger the image.
--flatten_max_pixels arg (=10000000) For conversions to .xod, .pdf (with
flattening), .html or .epub. Specifies
the maximum image size in pixels.
-b [ --box ] arg (=crop) Specifies the page box/region to use for
clipping. Possible values are:
media
crop
trim
bleed
art
The default is page crop region.
-c [ --crop ] arg User definable crop box to be used as a
top level clip region in the output SVG.
By default, the clip region is identical
to currently selected page 'box'.
--noclip Disables page clipping. Any content
outside of page boundaries will be
visible. By default, all pages are
clipped.
--noannots Disables conversion of form fields and
annotations.
--op arg (=pdfx) Specifies if overprint simulation is
used. Overprint is a device dependent
feature and the results will vary
depending on the output color space and
supported colorants (i.e. CMYK,
CMYK+spot, RGB, etc). Possible values
are:
off, overprint is turned off
on, overprint is turned on
pdfx, overprint is turned on only for
PDF/X files
By default, pdfx is used.
--noxmldoc Disables generation of the XML wrapper
document.
--thumbsize arg (=400) The maximum dimension of thumbnail image
in pixels. Default is 400.
--squarethumbs Generates square thumbs, whose
dimensions are <thumbsize> x
<thumbsize>.
--nothumbs Disables generation of thumbnail images.
--individual_char_placement Some viewers do not support the default
text positioning correctly. This option
works around this issue to place text
correctly, but produces verbose output.
This option will override
--remove_char_placement.
--remove_char_placement Disable the output of character
positions. This will produce slightly
smaller output files than the default
setting, but many viewers do not support
the output correctly.
--config arg Load xml file to configure font
substitution for missing fonts. By
default, tries to load the file
"config.xml" in the current working
directory.
--noprompt Disables any user input. By default, the
application will ask for a valid
password if the password is incorrect.
-p [ --pass ] arg The password for secured PDF files. Not
required if the input document is not
secured using the 'open' password.
--extension arg (=.pdf) The default file extension used to
process PDF documents. The default
extension is ".pdf".
--verb arg (=1) Set the opt.m_verbosity level to 'arg'
(0-2).
-v [ --version ] Print the version information.
-h [ --help ] Print a listing of available options.
Examples:
pdf2svg -o test_out/ex1 "Apryse PDF2SVG User Manual.pdf"
pdf2svg -o test_out/ex2 --svgz --nothumbs --noxmldoc -i .
pdf2svg -o test_out/ex3 -p mypass secret.pdf
pdf2svg -o test_out/ex4 --verb 3 --digits 6 -i --pages odd --svgz --noclip box .
pdf2svg -o test_out/ex5 --verb 3 --embedimages --pages 1 --svgz --box media .Trial setup questions? Ask experts on Discord
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